[cvsnt] Merge doesn't remove file

Tony Hoyle tony.hoyle at march-hare.com
Thu Mar 13 16:03:23 GMT 2008


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Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a file that has been removed on a branch, but when I merge that 
> branch into HEAD, the file on HEAD doesn't get removed. Instead, I get a 
> message that says "cvs server: file Base.hpp has been modified, but has 
> been removed in revision bGeDev". (See the update command below.)
> 
> The file is not modified on HEAD (see stat below). The only modifications 
> are a few revisions on the branch after the last merge before the file got 
> removed on the branch. But the last revision on the branch is dead (see log 
> below). Yet, after the merge, the file in HEAD is untouched.
> 
> Can anybody explain why it doesn't merge the remove from the branch to 
> HEAD?
> 
The branch was branched from 1.4, and there's a 1.5 on HEAD, which means 
that to delete on the merge is a conflict - changes will be lost.  cvsnt 
won't do anything that could potentially lose edits, so it warns you so 
you can do any changes needed manually.

Tony



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